"In deciding when, where and how to communicate theirwork, researchers may have to make choices between speedydissemination to a desired audience, and less speedy publicationin a high-status journal. Such choices are made more complexbecause researchers know that publications serve not only asmeans of communication. They can be monitored or measured asindicators of quality or impact (in the academic world and morewidely). And the difficulty in choosing between different channelsof communication is exacerbated because researchers oftenfind the messages they get from different agencies, includinguniversities, conflicting or unclear. But the perception that theirwork is being monitored and assessed in particular ways, notablyby the RAE, has a major influence on how they communicate"

¿Porque publicar en un sitio o en otro...o con un formato u otro?

Once you have published a book you have a certain standingin the field, you then get asked to do things for volumes, for handbooks [which] are quite substantial in the profession. They’re one of the main ways in which I deal with getting disseminated.”

The major reason for producing conference presentations andposters is naturally the desire for rapid dissemination

"Many reports have pointed to more widespread awareness (if notnecessarily deeper understanding) among researchers’ of openaccess, particularly in some areas in the biological and physicalsciences. There is some pressure on researchers from funders andfrom universities to make use of open access repositories, andprevious surveys have indicated that a majority of researchersare prepared to respond to positively to such pressures. But uptake of open access options – either through publication inopen access journals or through deposit of articles in open accessrepositories – has been slower than many would have hoped.Our survey shows that over 60% of researchers believe that openaccess repositories are either ‘not important’ or ‘not applicable’ tothe dissemination of their research. This may reflect researchers’concerns – shown in earlier studies – that open access outlets willbe not be rated highly by peer reviewers – either in the RAE or oninterview panels – or in any bibliometric analysis"